[cisco-voip] network adapter not showing "connected" in vSphere after utils system restart

[Mike King]

Looks like starting with 8.6, VMware Tools (CAN, doesn't have to be)
be automatically upgraded at each reboot.


On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Mike King <me at mpking.com> wrote:

> This is here for upgrading VMware tools:
> http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/VMware_Tools
>
> Note the Docwiki has a link to the developer wiki for this.  (Actually, two
> links in the following section)
>
>
> http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Implementing_Virtualization_Deployments#Installing_UC_Applications_in_the_VM
>
>
> Removing the -dev from the link appears to make them work
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Wellnitz, Erick A. <
> erick.wellnitz at kattenlaw.com> wrote:
>
>>  Cisco provides them on the download site.  The native vmware tools in
>> 8.5 releases is supposed to be compatible with 4.1 vmware.  Last I looked,
>> the only available update was for 8.0
>>
>>
>>
>> Installing the updated VMWare tools from Cisco might have solved our issue
>> with the network adapters on 8.0.2 versions.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
>> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Jason Aarons (AM)
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 10, 2011 9:20 AM
>> *To:* Mike King; cisco-voip (cisco-voip at puck.nether.net)
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] network adapter not showing "connected" in
>> vSphere after utils system restart
>>
>>
>>
>> Platform OS, I don’t think you can install VMware Tools, you don’t have
>> root -jason
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
>> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Mike King
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 10, 2011 10:10 AM
>> *To:* cisco-voip (cisco-voip at puck.nether.net)
>> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] network adapter not showing "connected" in
>> vSphere after utils system restart
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Have the VMware Tools been upgraded on the CUCM?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Jason Aarons (AM) <
>> jason.aarons at dimensiondata.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Seems if you issue a “utils system restart” (this was via ssh)  you might
>> have some network problems afterwards with the network adapter not showing
>> “connected” in vSphere, can’t ping virtual machine. Manually hitting connect
>> in vSphere won’t fix it.
>>
>>
>>
>> I recall a co-worker running into this with another customer, waiting to
>> hear back from them on how they resolved it, maybe delete/add the network
>> adapter via vSphere?  Working  to figure out what the fix is and where
>> the bug lies. Is this a Platform bug or a ESXi bug?
>>
>>
>>
>> ESXi4.1.0
>>
>> Unity Connection 8.5(1)SU1
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